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1383451 2014-09-08 11:46:00 I have several websites hosted by the same provider.
The latest website will not load unless I write index.html after the URL

http://www.edisonpower-electrical.co.nz (will not find the site)
www.edisonpower-electrical.co.nz (will find the site)

"index.html" should be automatically loaded first.

Both Mail & FTP work as normal.

I have checked all the settings and compared them with the settings on the other sites and can not find any reason for this situation. The Host has also checked and is none the wiser.

Any help would be much appreciated.
mzee (3324)
1383452 2014-09-08 11:59:00 Both links worked for me :)

Nowhere on your web site does it say what area you service :(
Zippity (58)
1383453 2014-09-08 12:11:00 Thanks Zippity, I will try another computer.
Good point about the service area.
mzee (3324)
1383454 2014-09-08 12:22:00 Works for me too, no problem at all. I notice that the site is not responsive but other than that I went straight to it. Webdevguy (17166)
1383455 2014-09-08 12:44:00 I re-installed Chrome and all is well now. Firefox & IE9 also work. Funny thing is that the other 4 sites on the same server were working Ok. mzee (3324)
1383456 2014-09-08 14:47:00 Both work for me as well. You're right in that your browser should crawl the index.html first and load it at the http://www.edisonpower-electrical.co.nz URL call. My best guess is that it got cached bad on your old browser. Mattheck (17287)
1383457 2014-09-08 23:27:00 Signed up with Google webmaster tools? May help for finding crawl errors and visibility errors. Plus other features like search position, search queries, URL removals, etc.

Note: If running two identical content websites, possibly need let the search engines know which is the main/preferred site for indexing and ranking. Known as Canonical URL's (bit.ly) (Google Results) often a tag is added and/or a redirect from one site to the other. Also prevents duplication penalties.
kahawai chaser (3545)
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